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Male and Female Bodies- Breaking Down Myths

05-19-2009

"Weaker sex" was the term that was coined for women for many years. However, this term is more ideology than reality, since the differences between the bodies of both sexes are rather "weak". The biggest difference between the sexes lies in the fact that women must endure monthly menstruation, and, depending on each case, several pregnancies throughout their lives. This does not have its physical counterpart in the man, but beyond that, the physical differences between men and women are not as great as many people assumed.

Strength
In the case of the muscle fibers, no differences were observed between men and women, with all that physical training alters their development. What differs between the sexes is the muscular strength, which is usually higher in men. However, this relationship is often taken on the total weight of the body, but when taken as a benchmark lean body is devoid of fat (of which called "muscle"), have not shown significant differences in the ability to develop the strength of muscles. Indeed, if women are subjected to an intensive training can overcome the force untrained men.

Body
The main physical difference between men and women, are often the first taller and heavier, with broader shoulders and hips. For its part, the percentage of body fat was significantly lower in men, which has between 10 and 16 percent of that area to levels of between 21 and 28 percent in women. Moreover, women have a lower amount of hemoglobin (the substance responsible for transporting oxygen) of red blood cells and androgen, a male hormone. In return, have higher levels of high density lipoproteins - the protection of atherosclerosis and estrogen, a female hormone. Beyond this, there are no important differences in the physical constitution, particularly in essential elements such as blood, bones, muscles and viscera (except those related to the weights and measures, which are proportional to the body and therefore smaller in women).

Aerobic capacity
As with the strength, aerobic capacity of men is higher than that of women by 33 percent if taken as a parameter the total weight, but only differ by 17 percent if used as a reference body lean. Some specialists say that the only factor influencing sexual five percent of the observed differences, pointing to the training destabilizing factor (95 percent) in the difference in aerobic capacity.

Clearly, then, that despite the popular imagination, the physical differences between the sexes are not very extensive, and the profits of the training are the same proportion in both the body and increase the ability to breathe, as in force.

This land with an old myth and allows females, through training, to overcome all the areas mentioned in what we call the "male".